There is an "away," and it's called Midway Island. A tiny little dot in the South Pacific, Midway Island is one of the bodies of land nearest the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and has become a time capsule of our civilization's love of disposable plastics. In the photo above you…
Graceful and deliberate, sea turtles tend our ocean lagoons and coral reefs, returning to land to lay their eggs. In the South China Sea, Indonesia's 250-island Anambas chain, some distance from this week's tragic earthquake, includes the half-mile-long Durai Island. This island is where most of the region's sea turtles…
Wallace J. Nichols, PhD Research Associate, California Academy of Sciences & Founder/Co-Director, Ocean Revolution I live blue because…When I look around at the beauty of and challenges facing the planet we live on, there’s no better way to live. Why do you care about the environment?That’s kind of like asking…
By Nick Gevock of The Montana Standard - 09/19/2009 Kathleen Kennedy was admonished by her own school board for showing "The Story of Stuff," a film about the environmental costs of rampant consumerism, but the biology teacher persisted. The teacher from Big Sky High School in Missoula held firm and…
Louise B. Brooks, James T. Harvey, Wallace J, Nichols, Tidal movements of east Pacific green turtle, Chelonia mydas, at a foraging area in Baja California Sur, Mexico, Marine Ecology Progress Series, July 2009, Volume 386, Pages 263-274, http://www.seaturtle.org/PDF/BrooksLB_2009_MarEcolProgSer.pdf Abstract We tracked East Pacific green turtles Chelonia mydas using GPS-VHF telemetry…
